Het transnationale leven van de Pools-Joodse familie Alter in België (1904-1914)

Belgian universities and higher education institutions welcomed thousands of students from the former Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. We are quite well informed about these students’ numbers and motives. Less research has been carried out into how they engaged in political, economic, cultural and scientific activities. This microanalytical study about the Belgian episode in the transnational life of the Polish-Jewish Alter family provides a useful starting-point. Examining the examples of the Alter brothers and sisters and several other Polish students, it becomes clear... Mehr ...